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The Australian Centre for Robotic Vision at QUT has grabbed first prize and US $80,000 in the Amazon Robotics Challenge with its custom-built Cartesian robot, Cartman. Cartman beat out 16 other teams from around the world, despite being the cheapest build competing, and one of its parts being held on with cable ties.